Domain name registration/leasing query

[Deep]

Completely confused by this.

Does one buy or lease a domain name? I always thought they were just bought outright. Having googled the subject it suggests you lease it and have to renew it every year. If that's correct then who are you leasing it from?

Godaddy show the domain name I'm after as available at a cost of £11/month. Does that mean that they own that domain or are they just brokers/agents?

Thanks

[Crusoe]

You pay to register the ownership, if you don't renew the domain registration the next year then someone else could come and buy/register it and take it away from you. Go daddy in this case would be the domain register sharubg the records of who owns it and providing validation that it is trustworthy to visit. They may also be the existing owner of the domain, look it up and it might have a go daddy register this domain now type advert sitting on it for example.

[itlab]

a bit of extra advice, if there is a domain name you want register it sooner rather than later

If you go around searching for that domain on a number of different sites you may find some one jumps in and registers it speculatively and squats.

(Happened many years ago to me, ended up having to buy the .com at auction a few years later, cost me £100ish so not much but a lot more than if I’d just registered it myself)

[Crusoe]

If if is something specific you also might want to buy the .com and the.co.uk and redirect one to the other that you are actually using.

[Deep]

Thanks.
When I look up the exact web address up nothing appears apart from a google page showing similar businesses.

I'm assuming that means godaddy haven't got exclusivity to it and so I could register it through other providers?

Godaddy do hosting as well but I have no idea if their pricing is competitive, I need to look into that.
Godaddy's pricing isn’t the easiest to figure out either...lots of things at introductory prices for one year and then two years at the 'price that is current at the time'.

Thanks

[b0rk]

£11/per month is a expensive for a domain .co.uk/.uk and .com are quite a bit cheaper. Assume its either an auction domain or one of the vanity tld's.

Unless you are gocompare and able to spank £££ into marketing the vanity tld's are frivolity to be used in addition to a base uk/.com,

[Deep]

b0rk said:

£11/per month is a expensive for a domain .co.uk/.uk and .com are quite a bit cheaper. Assume its either an auction domain or one of the vanity tld's.

Unless you are gocompare and able to spank £££ into marketing the vanity tld's are frivolity to be used in addition to a base uk/.com,

I don't think it's a vanity or auction type affair. It's a straightforward .co.uk and the website itself will be purely promotional no commerce etc.

Perhaps godaddy are more expensive than others?

[M1AGM]

Deep said:

b0rk said:

£11/per month is a expensive for a domain .co.uk/.uk and .com are quite a bit cheaper. Assume its either an auction domain or one of the vanity tld's.

Unless you are gocompare and able to spank £££ into marketing the vanity tld's are frivolity to be used in addition to a base uk/.com,

I don't think it's a vanity or auction type affair. It's a straightforward .co.uk and the website itself will be purely promotional no commerce etc.

Perhaps godaddy are more expensive than others?

We charge our corporates £16+vat per annum to register .co.uk domains. There are those out there cheaper for sure but thats not our market, we do it as a ‘one stop shop’ so we can manage everything for the client.

£11 per month is either a rip off or they are bundling in services you may not need.

You can register the domain with any registrar webservice and then point the dns to anywhere you like for your website and email. I use 1&1 for some personal email/domain stuff and I think they are £11.99 a year for a .co.uk. I tried using them for hosting a forum but that was a nightmare/expensive so I moved most stuff to gandi.net which would possibly be a good overall option for you to check out?

[Deep]

M1AGM said:

We charge our corporates £16+vat per annum to register .co.uk domains. There are those out there cheaper for sure but thats not our market, we do it as a ‘one stop shop’ so we can manage everything for the client.

£11 per month is either a rip off or they are bundling in services you may not need.

You can register the domain with any registrar webservice and then point the dns to anywhere you like for your website and email. I use 1&1 for some personal email/domain stuff and I think they are £11.99 a year for a .co.uk. I tried using them for hosting a forum but that was a nightmare/expensive so I moved most stuff to gandi.net which would possibly be a good overall option for you to check out?

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[b0rk]

Deep said:

I don't think it's a vanity or auction type affair. It's a straightforward .co.uk and the website itself will be purely promotional no commerce etc.

Perhaps godaddy are more expensive than others?

So the fee is inclusive of website hosting not the domain registration then?

Which makes slightly more sense, you're basically paying £10 per month for the hosting and £1 per month for the domain. Around £10 per month for webhosting isn't particularly expensive as things go.

[Deep]

b0rk said:

So the fee is inclusive of website hosting not the domain registration then?

Which makes slightly more sense, you're basically paying £10 per month for the hosting and £1 per month for the domain. Around £10 per month for webhosting isn't particularly expensive as things go.

My mistake, apologies.
It's £11.99 a year not a month! And for a 3 year contract the first year is basically free.

I'll now go back and see what they charge for hosting and all the add ons....I'll read more carefully this time!

Thanks